Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Thursday invited a top opposition official held by police on security offences to his palace, where he is expected to be sworn in as deputy minister.
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Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh has charged the citizens to use the celebration of the country's 44th year of independence Wednesday, as another moment for national reflection and the renewal of individual and collective commitment and pledge to nation building.
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Dakar- Senegal (PANA) - – The government and people of Gambia are Wednesday marking the country's 44 years of independence from British colonial rule, according to a PANA report from here.
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Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's main opposition Action Congress (AC) party has asked President Umaru Yar'Adua to tell Nigerians where he spent his recent two-week vacation, after he failed to show up at the places he had chosen to spend the break.
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Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- South African President Kgalema Motlanthe Friday urged Zimbabwe's new coalition government to remain united to be able to tackle the c o untry's unprecedented social and economic crises.
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Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, says she hopes the establishment of Zimbabwe's new Government of National Unity w ill result in an immediate effort to restore the rule of law.
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Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- The African Union (AU) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which helped to broker the formation of a coalition government in Zimbabwe, have welcomed the establishment of the government and promised continuing support for the country, especially in getting Western sanctions lifted.
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Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe Wednesday swore in his main rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, as the country's prime minister in a unity government that took months of hard negotiations to achieve.
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Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe Wednesday swore in his main rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, as the country's prime minister in a unity government that took months of hard negotiations to achieve.
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Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- A referendum on some amendments to the Mauritanian constitution has been slated for 20 June 2009, according to a statement from the Mauritanian home ministry.
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Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- The National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) has changed its statutes to become a political party under the leadership of Désiré Kamandji, a statement made available to PANA here said Friday.
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Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- The upper house (Senate) of parliment in Zimbabwe, tak ing a cue from the lower chamber, Thursday voted to amend the constitution to us h er in a coalition government in the country.
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Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe's lower house of parliament Thursday overwhel mingly amended the constitution to create the post of prime minister, to be occu p ied by the country's main opposition leader in a new Kenya-style coalition gover n ment, expected to be formed shortly.
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Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe's parliament meets here Thursday to amend the constitution which will usher in a coalition government, a day after rival poli t ical parties ironed out differences on the issue.
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Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- African Union (AU) Chairman Muammar Kadhafi said he would utilize the wisdom of former and serving African leaders to steer Afric a towards the goal of unity during his tenure as chief of the AU assembly.
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Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) --The African Union Commission (AUC) is to blame for the failure by African leaders to agree on the modalities for forming a Union Government at the end of their 12th summit here.
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Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Wrangling between the government and the opposition in Zimbabwe Wednesday held up the amendment of the constitution to usher in a coalition government, officials said.
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Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Dumping an earlier agreement, African leaders meeting here on Wednesday failed to reach a consensus on the transformation of the African Union Commission (AUC) to the African Union Authority, as a first step towards the establishment of a Union Government.
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Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement, Renamo, Monday insisted on swearing into office, several of its candidates who were defeated in the 19 November municipal elections.
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Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Algerian President Abdeleziz Bouteflika announced here Friday that he was committed to democracy and observance of human rights, b ut conceded also that the two were a major stimulus for the bloody violence that has in the past rocked the northern African Islamic state.
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Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Twenty-two years after the death of the former Premier o f the defunct Western Nigeria, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, prominent Nigerians, inclu d ing President Umar Yar'Adua, have commended his (Awolowo's) contributions to nat i on building.
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Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- African leaders are expected to deal conclusively with the discussions regarding the formation of the Union Government during the i r meeting scheduled for Sunday which could see the birth of a federal government for Africa after more than half-a-century of debate.
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Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Hardly a day after agreeing to join government in a power-sharing deal, Zimbabwe's main opposition party Wednesday backtracked, saying regional mediators had not addressed its concerns.
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Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- African leaders due to meet here next week are expected to brainstorm on the resurgence of military coups on the continent and propose new measures to extensively deal with individuals responsible for them, as a matter of urgency, a senior diplomat said here.
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Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The lack of progress towards peace in Zimbabwe, Western Sahara and the Eritrean-Djiboutian border row, currently ranked among the fourth category of Africa's trouble spots, has drawn the attention of the African Union.
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Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- President John Evans Atta Mills has asked two top security chiefs to proceed on leave, a statement signed by Mr James Beebako-Mensah, Secretary to the President said on Monday.
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Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua will spend his two-week vacation, starting Monday (26Jan), in the country, ruling out speculations that he will use the vacation to seek medical attention abroad.
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Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Democratic governance in Africa has improved during the last two decades, with the number of armed conflicts shrinking from 35 to 12 whi l e military coups have reduced from 29 to 9, a UN official noted in Dakar on Tues d ay.
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Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- A book entitled "Africa and the challenges of governance ", signed by 40 authors under the aegis of the UN Developpment Programme (UNDP), and prefaced by Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, was made public Tuesday in D akar.
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Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Former South African President Nelson Mandela has hailed Barack Obama as a "new voice of hope" for the world and compared his inauguration as US president to South Africa's historic transition to democracy.
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Washington DC- US (PANA) -- President Barack Obama performed his first official act shortly after he was sworn into office Tuesday as the 44th President of the US, signing his cabinet nominations and the 'declaration of national renewal and reconciliation'.
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Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya will next month host an international conference to discuss the East African nation's economic and political stability, which was seriously harmed by last year's post-election violence, Prime Minister Raila Odinga announced here Tuesday, during a breakfast meeting with journalists.
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Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- The leader of the ruling military junta in Guinea, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, has sacked the deputy head of the customs services, Aboubacar Bruno Bangoura, replacing him with Alpha Yaya Diallo, who was previously head of the Oil Office.
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Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The Guinean ruling junta has pledged to the African Union that it will hold presidential elections within the next six months and bring back the old constitution limiting the presidency to five years.
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